plasmodiocarp

American  

[plaz-moh-dee-uh-kahrp] / plæzˈmoʊ di əˌkɑrp /

noun

Mycology.

1. a fruiting body of certain myxomycetes.

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Etymology

Origin of plasmodiocarp

First recorded in 1875–80; plasmodi(um) + -o- + -carp

Example Sentences

Sporangia distinct or plasmodiocarpous, the plasmodiocarp creeping in long vein-like reticulations or curves, laterally compressed; sometimes distinct and crowded, always sessile.

From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by MacBride, Thomas H. (Thomas Huston)

Sporangium regular and stipitate or sessile, rarely plasmodiocarp; the wall a thin membrane, usually granular or venulose on the inner surface, colored as the spores and capillitium, irregularly dehiscent.

From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by Morgan, A. P. (Andrew Price)

A single reticulate plasmodium is usually converted without change of form into an individual plasmodiocarp.

From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by Morgan, A. P. (Andrew Price)

The fructification is a delicate netted plasmodiocarp, the tubule about .5 mm., bright red; the peridium simple, cartilaginous, dehiscent from above, and flecked with just here and there a red calcareous scale.

From The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species by MacBride, Thomas H. (Thomas Huston)

Distinguished from Perich�na by the terete plasmodiocarp and by the more spinulose capillitium.

From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by Morgan, A. P. (Andrew Price)